Seeing me crying, my 6-year-old son said a sentence that made me stretch and stand up

April 22, 2022 09:20 GMT+7

I have been married since the age of 26, so far I have a 6-year-old son. My husband and I are both office workers, the salary is not too high, so we call it enough to eat and wear.

Because my mother-in-law is difficult or unreasonably looking for a problem, I try to do business and save up to live on my own. However, because of that, my mother-in-law became increasingly hostile to me.

Moreover, since getting married, my husband is still a child and refuses to grow up to take care of the family. While I initially turned off the dark side with work, then came to take care of my family, sometimes looking for a part-time job to increase my income, he only knew how to work and spend time for his own pleasures. I have cried countless times because of helplessness before my husband’s indifference and selfishness, but he still suffers from all kinds of disabilities.

A few days ago, my mother-in-law came to my house to play and accidentally saw the family’s housework assignment sheet. Before reading the content and no matter what our life was like, my mother-in-law loudly scolded me for not knowing how to raise my family, bullying my husband and children.

“You’re good, climbing on your husband’s head and neck. You’re assigning chores around the house as it should, is that how you treat your husband? When I talk to you, you just keep your face on, you try to look at yourself to see if it’s okay to be a wife like that?”, my mother-in-law blamed me.

After saying that, the mother-in-law also went straight out of the house, not listening to my explanation. I was so helpless, I sat down on the chair and cried. At this time, the son came out from the room and comforted: “Mom, don’t cry”. I tried to calm down and told her: “Mom is not crying, why aren’t you in the playroom?”.

Suddenly she hugged me and whispered: “Mom, I told you. Do parents quarrel and then leave each other? Mom, don’t scold me anymore. If father and mother divorce, I will raise my mother.”

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What he said made me tear up, but I didn’t dare to cry anymore. Even a child who is only 6 years old can still think about his parents and family like that… So I quickly told him: “Parents don’t leave each other. Just a little quarrel between parents and it will be over. I love dad, love you, so I won’t leave anyone, do you understand? That’s why you don’t have to worry.”

It is true that every family has conflicts, no matter how big or small, but above all, we all want to make sacrifices for our children, so that they can grow up in a happy and loving home.

Readers Hong Nhung